Ideas, Science - Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:28 - 1 Comment
Open Source: the future of science?
By Sebastian Meznaric
The recent scientific crisis around climate research data leaks has greatly damaged the credibility and respect usually accorded the scientific community. The collected global temperature data was the subject of statistical analysis where the scientists in question used a “trick” to conceal certain decreases in the temperatures measured. The “trick” apparently went unnoticed [...]
Editorial - Sep 2, 2009 23:56 - 0 Comments
Editorial 2009 – Challenges and opportunities
The frightening practices of the police are nothing new – though the media do their best to feign shock and dismay – but they also show us how effective our movements are becoming.
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Ideas, Science - Mar 18, 2010 4:28 - 1 Comment
Open Source: the future of science?
By Sebastian Meznaric
The recent scientific crisis around climate research data leaks has greatly damaged the credibility and respect usually accorded the scientific community. The collected global temperature data was the subject of statistical analysis where the scientists in question used a “trick” to conceal certain decreases in the temperatures measured. The “trick” apparently went unnoticed [...]
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Blog, News - Mar 10, 2010 15:38 - 0 Comments
Chomsky: “First we rob and then destroy them, and then when they ask for a little bit of help, we kick them in the face.”
Chomsky on Haiti, Cuba, the G7 and democracy.
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Features - Feb 10, 2010 11:41 - 4 Comments
Samuel Beckett: The politics of vegetables
By David Prescott
‘Gardening. No hope for the future.’
Franz Kafka
‘At least he had gardening.’
Samuel Beckett
At a time when words mean whatever powerful people want them to mean, it seems futile to believe in their (I mean words’) ability to bridge the chasms of loneliness between people that lead to war. But then, words have [...]
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Columns - Jan 9, 2009 4:49 - 0 Comments
An unjustifiable police presence at climate camp
The police operation at this year’s climate camp was politically motivated and unjustifiable, writes a climate camper
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Features, Reviews - Feb 12, 2010 5:59 - 0 Comments
Book Review: “The Cleanest Race” by B.R. Myers
Brian Myers is an American academic based in Pusan who has a remarkable and original (at least in Anglophone scholarship) thesis regarding what North Korea “is”. The standard media line is that North Korea remains the last hardline Stalinist dictatorship in the world. Indeed, whilst China, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba remain as constitutionally communist regimes, they are relatively mild in their human rights abuses, and they are to varying degrees pursuing economic reform along Neoliberal lines. Many scholars continue to refer to pre-Soviet collapse North Korea as a “National Stalinist dictatorship”, with its own Korean eccentricities certainly (the bizarre personality cult for one).